PARTIAL RESULTS PUBLISHED

This text is the outcome of the extensive archival studies in Minnesota, at the Immigration History Research Archive (IHRC) in Minneapolis and the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) archives in St. Paul. It uses the unpublished recorded memories of a Croat migrant from Austria Hungary in order to discuss basic questions of the analysis of ego documents, self representation in memoirs and the influence of intermediary tradition. At the same time this contribution showcases research material on a single Austro-Hungarian migrant and directs a flashlight at the situation of those migrants in the American Midwest from WWI to the 1960s. This case study will also be used in the joint publication of Annemarie Steidl, Wladimir Fischer and James Oberly on the Transatlantic Migration Experience.